Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.

A jaw-dropping trove of 149 million login credentials — including millions of Gmail and Facebook passwords — was recently found sitting in a publicly accessible database, but this isn’t another ...

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